The ASPIRE project focuses on establishing a national spinal registry to explore the use of spinal implants across Australia. This project is a collaboration with St Vincent’s hospital, Musculoskeletal Health Australia (https://muscha.org), Medical Technology Association of Australia https://www.mtaa.org.au, Australian Orthopedic Association https://aoa.org.au/, Spine Society of Australia https://www.spinesociety.org.au/, Neurosurgical Society of Australia https://www.nsa.org.au/, and many private hospitals and insurers. The project builds upon the previous Australian Spine Registry (https://www.spineregistry.org.au/).

This project is a collaboration with Western Health and other hospitals. It focuses on optimised use of steam sterilisers in hospitals. These sterilisers are huge consumers of energy, yet the targeted and coordinated use of sterilisers remains under-explored.